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(FT-IR) Spectroscopy
Theory and Principles
Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy
High Energy /
• All molecules absorb energy
Short Wavelength in different ways. There are
numerous wavelengths of
light in the electromagnetic
spectrum and the study of
each energy region can offer
specific information about
the structure, composition
Low Energy / and electronic configuration
Long Wavelength of the molecule.
Molecular Vibrations
n Absorption
d
ne
n
b
na nc
Incident white light interacts with all vibrational modes of the
sample at once and emerges with missing lines characteristic of
the molecule
An Infrared Active Vibration
d-
d+
Small change
in equilibrium state
polarizability
d-
d+
A molecule such as H2O will absorb infrared light when the vibration
(stretch or bend) results in a molecular dipole moment change
Energy levels in Infrared Absorption
Excited states
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• Pharmaceutical research
• Forensic investigations
• Polymer analysis
• Lubricant formulation and fuel additives
• Foods research
• Quality assurance and control
• Environmental and water quality analysis methods
• Biochemical and biomedical research
• Coatings and surfactants
• Etc.
Infrared Quantitative Analysis
Beer’s Law
A = abc
Where:
A = Absorption intensity
a = absorption coefficient for a specific IR peak
b = sample pathlength
c = sample concentration
Quantitative Analysis Applications
0 . 2 3
0 . 2
0 . 1 5
A b s
0 . 1
0 . 0 5
1 6 6 0 1 6 0 0 1 5 5 0 1 5 1 0
W a v e n u m b e r [ c m - 1 ]
Quantitative Analysis - CLS
The FT-IR Instrument
Mirror Displacement and Monochromatic Light
• Apodization - a
Apodization
mathematical operation
to reduce unwanted
oscillation and noise
contributions from the
interferogram. Common
apodization functions
include Beer-Norton,
Cosine and Happ-
Genzel.
FT-IR Terms and Definitions